Word: constrains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bolivia, Flyer LeBrix could constrain himself no longer. It was at the French minister's reception to them, and before that formal throng he loudly complained that his companion was making himself the hero of the flight. The Latins there were vexed with his apparent unmannerliness...
There exist other foreign monopolies of natural products which hamper where they do not constrain U. S. business?British rubber, French-German potash, Chilean nitrate and iodine, Japanese camphor, Brazilian coffee...
...Christian history, so that he repeat: ancient blunders and is unenriched by past discoveries." Such a man must acquire "a theology which conserves all the Christian experience of the centuries, utilizes the gains of current philosophy and the sciences, and utters itself in convictions which grip the heart and constrain the conscience of sinner and saint, of educated and illiterate." And: "This seminary has been a protagonist for the freedom of the Christian mind...
...What are my crimes and that of my Government? We are laymen and we are fighting for laicism, which is not an aggressive doctrine. We stand for freedom of conscience and we protest when in this 20th Century an attempt is made in the name of dogma to constrain conscience and when we are told, as our ancestors were told in the Middle Ages, that Science and Liberty are idols...
...Auxiliary ships with increased speed must be developed, because these ships now constrain the fleet to a speed of less than 10 knots. only ship of its type now belonging to the Navy...